https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/trumps-80-word-explanation-about-punishing-women-for-abortion-will-make-you-instantly-dumber/MSNBC’s Willie Geist asked Trump if he still believed [women should be punished].
Trump replied:
"No, he was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, but he was asking a rhetorical question, and I gave an answer. And by the way, people thought from an academic standpoint, and, asked rhetorically, people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer! But of course not, and I said that afterwards."
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Well, I don't know about you all, but that clears it up for me. He was giving an unbelievable academic answer.
